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RED SPAROWES debut album At The Soundless Dawn has just been re-pressed and it turned out awesome! We made 1000 more copies of this long out-of-print 2×12″ with half pressed on silver colored vinyl, and the other half pressed on clear vinyl with silver smoke. Both color variations compliment the artwork well, and here is what we initially wrote about the album back when it was first released:

“Tasteful use of space can be a rarity in modern instrumental music. Los Angeles’ RED SPAROWES debut with At The Soundless Dawn, a massive album with unconventional approaches to creating aural landscapes that prove not only tasteful, but downright outstanding. With generous hints to shoegazing’s glorious past, their subtle use of reverberating guitars not only echoes the west coast’s comforting distance of surf rock, but also helps the band fluidly transfer into darker passages that flow more like orchestral movements than modern rock songs. Their softer moments resonate in dream-like sequences that drift convincingly into heavier explosions, dismissing the predictable build-ups standardized by many bands of their ilk. It seems that no matter what pace they are playing, RED SPAROWES‘ music is always in motion… and with alumni from both NEUROSIS and ISIS on board it’s not exactly a huge surprise. At The Soundless Dawn is a seven-track, double-LP album and comes housed in a stunning gatefold jacket, helping make this nothing short of a phenomenal debut.”

Although that was written over two years ago now, it’s still completely applicable as the band really did construct an incredible first album (then continuing on to create the killer followup Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun which we also just re-pressed as a few weeks back). If you have not heard the material on this album, two MP3s from it can be heard here:

(yep, all the song titles are really long, spelling out a story basically)

Along with the recent RED SPAROWES 2xLP re-presses, we’ve also just had a big pile of new additions and restocks to our ever-growing Robotic Empire Online Store… including some sweet new t-shirts (shown above). Done by local Richmond basement-dwellers, the SLEEP Vol 2 t-shirt came in freakishly close to our own recent BLACK SABBATH / black metal tribute/parody t-shirt & hoodie entitled Blackmetal Sabbath:

We post this again as a lot of folks overlooked it in the shadows of the last update, but they turned out fucking sweet as the print is pretty much spot-on and got printed on faux American Apparel t-shirts. These along with a whole mess of new items/restocks are now available in the Robotic Empire Online Store:

Yep, another bigass update with lots of colored vinyl for all you collector freaks and new t-shirts for those more fashionable than us! Please continue to keep us busy and head on over to our Robotic Empire – Online Store… thanks and take it easy!